The Sun. — London, England, 1808-11-23 00:00:00

3h h~ tin; bi L(5• f3V 6 of el t.uuru 7 l)44" lid IMPROM*PTU, ON A ZADIC ♦T NORWICW, 3Y 143. stxr•:NGtia:.t. Oh! Could 1 now - in one choice word unite All that delights the mind and charms the sight ; A voice replied—" AroLz, o' a torpid son ! 5 ' Write iIENR. ILTT A, and the task is done." e follovAug- is the exad order of march of the British force in Spain and Portugal, with the :t t esi'tbe several columns are expected to make, e probable time of their arrival at the places -des tlitlid'for th e j un dio n o f t h e w h o l e, an d f or their ltterior 'operations. Sir J. MoORE left Li s b on on 27th of 00ober. He. was to proceed dired to ` llle teyda,*through Abrantes, Castel linnet), and Al ttr 'He would pass all the divisions of the ttl e .', i llarcliing upon that line, and would reach Al of , 1 4 ' 0 11 the 4th of November. The m o v emen t s vii. British troops have been direted as follows, toru„cor e ender Sir David Paiid, •tvhial disembarked at Astorga. 141,0" re. Brigades under Major-Ceneral )3;restOrtl, by Coint ra , Alr neyth Akb ra ,l ee Brigades under Lieutinant.General Fraser, -by :c Ka Ciudad Reficriga. AI WO Brides under Nlajor-General Paget, by. Elvas and,. uantara, upon Ciu'dad Roderigo. early he attove divisions would reach their destination' n ek . h in November, and would be assembled in the tn i 'r ur t l4 ) o d of Salamanca by the middle of this a _ trti r i Y ie , r) c ,.. onsisti ng Val °ll ' t ' ll- ° ll l the bad state of the roads, the ca of two regiments, five brigades of and tour regiments of infantry, under the ' : 11 tuand of Lieut. General Hope, were obliged to 1 5 ,,,tch by the road leading-from Badajos to Nladrid ; turning to the left prior to their arrival at Ma- I t 'd, they would march upon and halt at Epinar. s e w as imagined that the whole army would be as ebled °vett)bat Burgos and V a ll a d o lid a b out the, end of er.' , T he present of 4000 Merino Sheep, sent by the Patriots to theKtng, will unquestionably prove} lti ' l) -4 „",, l °Lial advantage, by improving the wool of this ° "otn his Majesty, with his usual ben4i.cence, .nt en ,. lit re „,, Ql L;g to distribute amongst all the p i rinc!pal a i ' lc l u ers and agriculturists st-nail lots of this large valuable flock. app r e tie clsired t o contraditi the Paragraph which Sir in ou r P aper some days ago, stating, that CRAItL " H ASTINGS h a d b een a b sent f rom Lon the tbre e years—ai it is only three months s i nc e Last S u e worthy zi Brorip t w t the Capital. of I r n d the shop N the o p e n, and robb e d o f Cael-4 Fr, tailor, 4Y morning, about fi ve ' in Edgeware-road, was b ro k e a:nount pieces of cloth and cloth e s t o of upwards of 3001. , ees On Wednesday se'nnigbt, one of the large beech r t at Newbottle Abbey, near Edi n b urgh, was 01.vit down. These trees are very large, and sup t7tilld to have existed nearly three centuries. The blown down measured 28 feet in c i rcum f erence . y ouh t3 t Monday evening, about seven o'clock, a • i f , 6 man, of genteel appearance, was observed ii.tllrow himself from off Blackfriars-bridge, into 1,7 river, and instantly sunk, Yesterday the body dragged for, but without success. ver.ll,l2r - ,l) vturrrszitEN T .—A stationer, after ad lif;;4ll3)7_ variety of arti c l es , g i ves t h e f o l lowing etali s a 4 . --„ To regular customers, be sells wafers Coi tv hel?'-BXCIIANGE, Nov. 23.—There is a middling Y 1 Wheat to-day, and thiS trade is very acid Malt in sales at a further reditaion in price; Bailey tw o k in are each cheaper; Pease and Beans of the o riv ;n ofearly at last currency ; there are several art': Oats, but few of good quality, and this tlaMed at g )1162 riation many cargo es price:a ----- a • , - 0-- ---te---- - -----9 - - - aae e --- ‘a u nder the induces Patronage of th e Balti more SM ITH family, , —......._ • . es the belief that .it be derived from their may pITTH DAY, TUESDAY, Nov. 22. au thority ; (Continued fr om our'Paper of Yestereky. ) unles s , i n d ee d , we are to Vi ew i t merely The Narrative o f Si r H ew Dalrymple, as sub as a tri c k too perate on the approaching elali eons.— We i i milted by him, yest er d a y, to t h e consi d era ti on o f the have heard o f a letter 'recently addressed to e s s ceurt, was read by the Judge Advocate. . a en ntlenian in office, from • high h f . Sir HEW DALRYMPLE, in answer to certain ques another in ant (10-.. - ei , . himof rity, i Irons pUt to respecting the state the supplies Which states that the last,' arrivals from both -Lem eheseamy, upthe • Fra n , to morning of the 23d of Au - and England ware. of so favourable a naturethigitaati t ipaodiaced .a return from the Deputy Commis-- as to warrant' the belief that the l a te i n ju r i o us and , sary of the A rm y i n P ortuga l , w hi c h was rea d , h ut ' vio lent Ord . in to inaudibl e a manner, t h at i t was i mposs ibl e to i., ers and Decrees of those Powers would gather the c on t ents ca l i t. De ii ai Peaduy annulled. Although we do not implicitly ! There was al so rea d a retu r n o f t h e. num b er o f r rale on this information, we most fervently hope 'it Drench, troops embarked a t ,Li s b on , amount i ng i n hie the whole to 24,7 3 5 men, 213 women, 116 chi!- Y be corre&, and that the Country may thereby J d ron e and 'The cavalry h o rses. • be ,• relieved from the oppression and ruin of the Em- Sir A. WELLESLEY then cime for Ward. - and P bar go. begged leave to offer a few remarks won that part , N. 13 . --It ought to be remarked, however, on the of Sir Hew Dalrymple's Narrative, which bed re ference to the operations and movements 'of the above • . e article, that the Eleaion in Maryland corn- British Army while under his (Sir A. Wellesley's) Pen . that Sir He He began by Observing:, , „ ces next Monday. It is not improbable, there- - fore , that this is an artifice principally invented tco; ' • • ,in reference to the advance of the army along the coast front Mondego bay, had said, that he (Sir o perate on this occasion. :1 A. WelleSley) had taken upon !Myself' an enter- T • a2 PIRATE HALEY, AGAIN. An account is now - 1 `Prize of great hazard and danger, and seemed by in received fro ference, to demand if he, Sir Arthnie conceived m New London, the birth place of the himself in sufficient force' - for undertaking r iliat en infam woos HALEY, that he had written to his friend t terprize ; and if so, whether he'' hid . adopted the there, About his appointment : statine that his re- most advantageous' operations- and route ConSehtlent ward w as F . " " ' upon that conception ? In answer to those cplestiOns, . FIF E THOUSAND DOLLARS awn, and the , , that hedid consider himself sti - he would reply, 1 - tti privil e - ge of loading with coffee; whether on his own ciently strong to advance against the enemy. He ti geOun .. his comniand he recl-On had 13,000 troops under s, , eis or as a present, to the Tyrant:4k court, at a *ir, ed upon being joined' by 6060 Portuguese, under i - ea when deprived of that luxury by . the British blo e l; ' General Friere, and the whole strength of the French ~i - '''''' IV 3 does not appear. How long will an in- force he had reason for knowing did not exceed a . a ' t ed people submit to such partiality i This aban- 20,500 men.—Under such circumstances, he. would d oned ch arac t er was se l e a e d f rom twenty who pre- ask, what wo u ld hi s G overnment an d Country have seat ed thought of him, if h e h a d f e lt th e sma ll est relud- ' _themselves to take out the dispatches of Go- mice in advancing to meet the enemy? That'he had . Terri • meat. This fa&, added to the many before calculated the outside of the numbers he should have! 'discover to-contend vvith, was afterwards app of z . encit arent, as the ect) and to the disgraceful history ofloading • French, at the Battl e o f Vi m i era , on t h e 21st , Privateers under the prate( of our - 1 lead not more than 16,000 men in the field; in- ' Zlavy e (thr ee o f which have fallen, fully loaded, into - deed he had only reckoned I+,ooo. But the mein (be bands of the English) wilt .. wt go far to exasperate doectasion he meant to draw was, that if the enter the people•ptv q ; was hazardous and dan gerous , he w a s no t of ne w Ep g l an d, wh o are d epr i ve d o f the .. e without the probable means of concluding it to a rights procured and left them by their ancestors, in - abccesSful issue. .. %der .As to the second question, whether if his means' to grant monopolies to bOth foreign arid do- Itiesti c were adequate ; he had adopted the measures most c Javeurtites . 1 ,-ilepertory. liliely to conduce to an advantageous result, he should observe, that he had adopted the 'line of i march, in his mind, the ..best calculated to form the advance of his troops. But it was said, that he had left the French in possession of all the strong mili tary positions. He would, reply, that had he ap proached in a different direction, he should have , been e exposed to the enemy's cavalry, and he must ; „chive, invested the fortress of Eivas, inferior to none ' 'in strength of the second order in Europe, and by ,altar means have exposed his artnv in a bad climate to privation and hardship. On the other, hand, by keeping along the ' coast, his line was unbroken, his movements were rendered more compact, and he secured a constant supply from the ships. His object ' bad been at the moment when the cotnrnand ceased to rehrain with him, to have turned the enemy's posi tion et Torres Vedras, and, he could assert, that at that moment, however much' the difficulty might have been, the means existed in his hands of brineilig the contest to a fortunate conclusion. Whatever ad vice he had given as to the subsequent Convention, it only went to approve of the principle of allow ing Portugal with their ar m s and baggage. By thi s means, he saw that the tnat fi would be brought to a speedy issue, which was, in his Mind, a matter of infinite impo rtance , wheu lilts - nature and intended result of the .service were taken into consideration. All the jacilities e which, ~,in the event of his intended operation being success- . -:, 'fill, would have beep in the hands of the British, re '4.l4iaiiiiialilii the possession orelse French ; so that they tnigisteeby mean Of the number of boats which were ff in their' eiever, cross over to the other side of the Tagus, and occupy the forte there, from whence it eight not be in the power of the British to expel them for some time. In this case the British army ► must have been exposed to the fatigues of a siege, during the most inclement season of the year. The 'object nt the British Government, on the contrary, however, he conceived, had been to lose as little time as possible, in Portugal, and to proceed to co- Operate withehe Spanish armies. By, this Conven tion, there were liberated for the same purpose 4000 Ay,,fißiii-T, who were on board of the Russian fleet. Besides these, 16,000 British troops had been ren dered-disposable for the same purpose;. and; of the 'French liberated, who, it was alleged, would so ''atleedilY find their way into Spain, not a single man had arrived, or could exped to be brought to the frontiers of Spain for some time to come. He again repeated that.he had given his concurrence to the Convention ouly on the ground of its being a prin ciple founded on sound policy, to allow the' French to evacuate Portugal. They were not likely there to be in want of provisions —they were, in fact, in the po,session of Portugal, in a military point of view. The British army, on the other hand, must have been exposed to every went.. ' A t the same time too; thet this agreement was entered into in Portugal, it was we'l known that there were other operations in which the presence of the Britisli p army %SW; ex peeled, and anxiously require d. S u far, therefore, be ap proved of the principle of the Convention. There ; were particul ar p o i nts i n i t, h owever, from which he • totally dissented ; and so far from Sir Hew Dalryni :.:. pie having been prepared to cultivate his friendship, if he should be allowed to judge from what had oc curreddu ring the discussion of the Articles, he should -el.; ae. - imagine lie entertained a prejudice against his opi nion. When the approach of General Kellerman was aenouncecl, he (Sir Arthur) asked of Sir Hew Dalrymple, if he should go 'to the out-posts to speak to him? The answer was, No—that General Kel lerman had inquired for him, the CoMmander Of the i Forces, and that he must be brought to head-quar ters. Sir A. Wellesley here. proceeded to state the Articles of . the Preliminary Treaty to which► he had objeded. First, That the Negociation should not originally extend beyond the suspension of hostilities: Second, That instead of private property, the wends arms _and baggage should be substituted. Third, ' 'That OM 1ti0 6 ., should be introduced about the RusSian fleet. - On the two first of -these the Coiumerider differed fiom hint : on tho third, 'he was of 'pinion that it might form part of the Treaty, : but if not ap proved of by the Admiral, that then it,should be struck out. General Kellerman again insisted that the Russian fleet was a neutral in the putt ot Lisbon; that it should be at liberty to leave that pert; and that the British fleet should 'tot be entitled to pro ceed in chase of it for a limited time., To this the Commander, refused to agree, or to permit any farther indulgence than 'that till the ~ ConyentiOn as to the Russian fleet should' be settled, Lisbon should be to, it as a .neutral port., Sir Arthur Wellesley agreed. that it waa,correet, if there was any thing amiss should appear in his conduct, that he should be punished 1 - or it. He sebmitted; however, 'tl.at there would be something new and strange in the doctrine, that he, a subordinate Officer, should be pueished for whatever might he blameable in the ' condnd of the Conepander of the Forcesl He was afraid the memory of Sir Hew Dalrymple did not serve him when he stated that it was in consequence of , a : suggestion of General Kellerman's, and not froin any d6ire expressed by Sir H. Dalrymple him self, that he (Sir A. Wellesley) signed the Prelimi nary Artielea, According to his (SirA.Wellesley's) reeolleCtion of the circumstance, he was in another morn at the time,, when Sir Hew Dalrymple carne to JiiM, and informed him. that General Kellerman had said, when he (Sir H.'Dalrymple) was.going up to sign the Preliminary Treaty, that it was not proper for him, the Commander of the Forces, to sign such a Peper . .w.iih General Kellerman, who was only a General or DiViSion. He (Sir H.' Dalrymple) there- . • fore asked Sir A. Wellesley if he had any objection ,t0 . ,,q4 the paper -,-when he -said that he had not, and that he would 'sip; it as any other paper which he Might be desired to sign . ley his (Sir H. Dal ryiiiple's) authority. He again repeated, that he . was not. in the room when General Kellerman stated ,the.ithpropriety of Sir Hew Dalrymple signing the Preliminary Ankles, but it was in another room that Sir Hew asketthun`-(Sir A.Welle s ley) to s i gn th em . He did not esteem himself responsible for the na ture-of the Articles, or for the terms in which they were drawn up. He gave his advice only as to the principle of the Treaty, but he did not conceive himself responsible 'for that advice. If he had, in deed, been sent to negotiate a Treaty, he would pre . bably have been responsible for the terms of it---at events, ter the form in which it was drawn up. But this could not be the case Mien , his superior Officer, the. Commander of the Forces, was hiinSelf present, and was, in fad, the negotiator of the Treaty. That Sir Hew Dalrymple was such, he apprehended, was clearly shown, he ,having stated that he stepped for- ward himself to sign the Treaty, and was only pie , vented by General Kellerman on a point of eti yuette--a circumstance which could not have oc curred bad Sir Hew considered him (Sir. A. Wel lesley) to have been the negotiator ! Sir Arthur's statement then goes on to detcut the dilfereut corn munings and deliberations which took place on Co lonel Murray's being sent with the Articles for the approbation of Admiral Sir C. Cotton with, respect to the disposal of the Ruasiae Fleet. On this sub jet 'he (Sir At thur) declared that it had then been, and still was e his.opinien, that the best thing which possibly could have been done was to have left it in the port of Lisbon.' Things might have turned out in such a manner as to have put the Fleet. in our power; at all events,,, the seamen by which it was manned would not have been sent home to fight agaihst the Swedes. He proceeded to defend this oein4n by arguing that the moment the Portuguese colours were hoisted at Lisbon, it Would, as to the Russian Fleet, have become a neutral port. The Admiral, hoWever, would not aeree to this. The Defiuitive Treaty was, in teeny respeets, different from the Pre:it - ninny Articles. Sir. Hew Dalrymple settled the whole ,ot it for himself ; and, in point of tact, he (Sir A. Wellesley) had , never seen the Con vention till he read it in England. Sir HEW Daeaymi , es, in explanation, stated that the . Aid-de-Camp whom he had sent on Shore, ,on his arrival off the coast, to intimate to Sir A. Wel lesley thht it was not his intention to interfere in his commana, had not been able to meet with him.— He also stated, as a proofe bat Sir A. Wellesley bad negotiated with respett to the Russian Fleet, that while General KeliC113;111 was arguing that subject with Sir Arthur iu French, - a poison whom Keller man bad brought :Jong with him had got Sir Hew to the window, and was eudeavoui ing, in bad Eng lish, to enforce on him arguments similar to those used by General Kellerman, which principally went to prove the bad , policy of the English in e ati ng with harshness towards the Russians, who were well. disposed towards thein thitg extraordinary in it, as far as the Portupi , se were concerned, except the n utra lity 01fleet of Lisbon: • Sir HEW DALAYMPLE, in answer to a question from the President, whether he had any documents respeaing the, state of the fortifications, when oc cupied by the Briti,h ?• replied, that the reports of the Officers who took possession of the forts had"not ar rived when he left P , 4 - turr b ill and therefore h e c ou ld Say their condition. The Presid , n - 4 then delivered some ikritten quet- Lions to Sir Hew, to he answered in writing. The lat. ter, upon looking at the piper, observed that there were some which he could answer immediotely ; but, however, on the whole, it might be as .well to give -the answers in writing at the next meeting of the Court. Capt. BLIGH then called and examined: JUDGE-ADVOCA/ E.—Was you employed off th coast of Portugal in the months of August and Sep, tember, in superintending the landing, and assisting the British Army ?—A. Yes. State geterally whether there are any-diffitui ties in landin g ` troop , , provisions, stores, &c. in the montiiS4A . iitrgnst and September, between Oporto and the Tagus - and what they are, if any ?—A. The difficulties'Lare4t.all tunes great from the 'heavy swell, and were particularly so during the time that I was assisting in landing the army under Sir Q. Ace there 'any situations between Mondega Bay and the Tagus, where ships could a►►chor safely in these months, and in boisterous whetter? None whatever. (11, Could the boats of the country, obtahied at Mondego, be carried to the Southward, so as to be of use ? A. They could be carried to the Southward, but, I conceive, :Kit so as to be of any use. Sir ARTH ftW E Lt. E2I:EY, g#e a cursory statement of a few , atnenchnents it had been proposed; to make in the Articles of the Convention, in the con ference which he ani other General Officers had with Sir HeW Dalrymple on the , ieth of August. The pi incipil amendment related to the fitth Arthur being of opinion -that they ought to have been allowed to carry away no property but their arms .and baggage. Sir fInW observed,. in . opposition - to a statement of Sir A. who hid said, that the Convention had been afterwards concluded without the amendments, that some material ameodinents had been made, to Pro" which lid would .produce, the original. The letter which Sir A. bad written to thel3iShop of Oporto, might, if prodbced, throw considerable light on the questibn with respect to the RusSian fleet. He had the ans,l.ver to this. letter, which was brought to him 'as being addressed to the Command er in Chief. The• Bishop and Junta of Oporto as sumed the style and charaker of the Government of the kingdom, which he never allowed them, and to Iris resistance to their pretensions was owing a good deal of the hostility which heexperienced from that city. He had, however, no communication with them on the subjeti; though Sir Arthur had, as would appear from the answer to his letter. • Sir ARTHUR WELL E3LE Y said, that be need not enter Upon the subject of the pretensions of the Go vernment of Oporto, as on that point he perfectly concurred with Sir Hew Dalrymple. The letter alluded to must have been written after the Artnis tice. .He really had no recollection whether he wrote it or not. He certainly had no copy of it, otherwise ire would undoubtedly produce it. He had seen in the newspapers a copy of that letter,, in which it was said, that there was nothing extraordi nary in the Armistice, except what related to the - neutrality of the Port,d Lisbon, with resped to the Russian sleet. He still said, that there was OQ- Q. What dependence could in point of fad have been placed on landing provisions and.' heavy artil lery,, on the 21st of August To the best of . ruy recollettion there was a great dent of surf on the beach 'that day,., which would Prevent the landing of troops. Provisions and stores were, landed three days after the 21st, bat the sea rose so much after that, that it was attended with";extronie danger to . attempt Q. (Ey , Sir H. DALKYMFLE). What entrance and ..!..I. 7 Nhelter ectuld the Mondego River .atibrd froco - a-;6 winds and the swell to ships drawing wore than eieven feet water ?—A. Cape Mondego affords shelter from the Northerly minds, but the Loads are ppen to rite South-West, the most dangerous wind that btovvi on that coast. Here Capt. Bligh's exa mination General FERGUSON was then called in. Sir, DAvtp PUNDAS delivered to him a•paper of questions . , which he inforrned him had been pre pared for him to answer. He desired him to look over thg)t.a.od see whether he thought proper to an swer them Olmediately, or keep them for.the pre sent, and - gWe in his answers in writing. General Ferguson haVing looked for a short time over the paper, said, that trom the nature of the questions he would prefer giving in the answers in writing. The President then desired that the Court might be cleared, with an intimation that it would proceed no . tattber till Thursday. The delay is perhaps oc casioned by the absence of Sir H. Bwrarci, the Dukes of Cambridge and Cumberland were present as on the previous days. FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, Nov. 12.—Letters from Cologne', of the blii, state, that the contingent from the conscrip tions of the years t 80G, 7,8, and 9, for the de partment of the Boer, fixed at , 1382 men, has marched from Aix-la-Chapelle _almost complete ; there are Only wanting a few conscripts who have obtained furloughs for causes provided• for in the re gulations. The detachment destined for the Impe rial Guard, was remarkable for the fine men which comPerie it. 'independently of this last levy, more thatra hotldred refradory conscripts, who had been expatriated (br several years, have returned, and en tered the service.. I'Ve learn from Dusseldorif, that the Jews of that city, on the 27th of Odober, took, the oath of fidelity to the Emperor. These indivi-; duals enjoy, trout 1 that moment; all the rights of citizens, and.all t•tie shameful usages which distin guished them from other subjects, are for ever abo lished. In a Report addressed to the Prince of NEUFCBA.• TEL by the luspe&or DUFEE,,NE, gre.at abuses are re presente4Ap elkist in the clothing department of the French army., The various articles of clothing - had been{pa's!-!..ed through 'several 'hands, each of whom derived enormous prOfits, so: . : that . for making a ca potte, for which Government paid two francs 50 cen times,- the original fmnisher : received only from t 5 to t 8 SOUS, xnd in the same proportion for other ar ticles of the soldiers' clothing. The Report com plainS that both Government and the manufa6turer are thus defraude'd by thesetontraelors and middle men. Some of the contractors are also said to have received five per cent. on the prices from the mann faaurers, in consideration'of their passing any kind of clothing without examining its ,quality. In con sequence of this Report, the Emperor has issued the following Pecree:— " The Grand - Judge is r*ired to cause 63 be ar rested, delivered up to the Tribunals ; and punished' according to law, those guilty persons, not only as robbers and dilapidators of the public money, but also as compromising the service of the army. The CornmisSarrGeneral will. cancel, as fraudulent, all tics ,Contracts made with such individuals. He will enjoin the Prefeet of the Giroride, and the Com missary at Bourdeaux, to take measures for prevent ing the service from suffering, and that it be pro- Perly provided for. (Signed) " Bayonne, Nov. 4, 1 808." " NAPOLEON." EXTRAORDINARY TIDE.—The tide which carried away so much of the Cliff at Brighton, was the highest that has been known on that coast since the year 1786, when the East'clitf Battery was destroy ed, and it is remarkable, that both these - tides oc curred in November, 'one on the 17th, the other on the 18th. The New Steyne, at Worthing, was in undated by that of Friday, and several acres of w h eat • Sverc overflowed at Lancing.... An immense quantity o f segiAvtap ha i been cast along the !loutbrn of wnxiihcif‘rtners, we hope, will make good use. g